Gold and silver ended 2025 with outsized gains, driven by monetary policy shifts, central bank accumulation, and sustained industrial demand that pushed both metals to multi-decade highs.

Bitcoin’s price on Wednesday stands at $87,234, with a market capitalization of $1.74 trillion, reflecting a cautious tone heading into Christmas Eve as 24-hour trading volume clocks in at $36.90 billion and the intraday range stays boxed between $86,713 and $88,091. The numbers suggest bitcoin is pacing itself rather than sprinting, as traders digest mixed signals across timeframes and indicators.

Bitcoin ETFs posted a fourth consecutive day of outflows, while ether ETFs slipped back into the red. XRP and solana ETFs continued to attract modest but steady inflows, underscoring selective investor demand.

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Bybit will discontinue its platform for Japan‑based users and enforce verification deadlines to meet local regulations.

The Russian central bank releases a concept allowing qualified and non‑qualified investors to buy crypto assets under differentiated rules.

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Matador Technologies Inc. has secured final approval from the Ontario Securities Commission for a $58.4M short-form base shelf prospectus, enabling flexible capital raises over 25 months.

The SEC moved swiftly against alleged crypto fraud, accusing multiple trading platforms and investment clubs of orchestrating a multimillion-dollar scheme that lured retail investors through social media, messaging apps and fake AI-driven trading promises.

A warning of a looming dollar breakdown is rattling markets as Peter Schiff says fading safe-haven trust could ignite inflation, crush living standards, and send shockwaves through currencies, bonds, and risk assets worldwide.

Crypto scams are rapidly migrating into private group chats, where fraudsters pose as trusted experts, use AI-powered deception, and funnel retail investors toward fake trading platforms, prompting a fresh SEC warning about rising losses and evolving tactics.

Vaneck’s digital assets outlook signals a stronger, steadier crypto market, spotlighting bitcoin’s improving structure, a capital-intensive mining shift, and selective growth in stablecoins and payments as speculation fades and fundamentals take hold.

JPMorgan is reportedly weighing cryptocurrency trading for institutional clients as regulatory clarity and demand push Wall Street closer to digital assets, signaling a broader thaw between traditional banking and crypto markets.

A market regime shift is already underway, according to veteran credit strategist Larry McDonald, who says early signs of a credit accident are flashing beneath record equity prices as markets head into 2026.

After a flood of documents and photographs from the Jeffrey Epstein files dropped this month, even more material from the sprawling archive is expected to roll out under a U.S. Department of Justice release required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Since then, a Polymarket wager titled “Who will be named in newly released Epstein files?” has drawn attention, with the current front-runner being the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.